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A troop of North Korean soldiers march Oct. 10 in honor of their country's ruling party.
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In the Lead
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What exactly is data obsolescence?
How can my data become obsolete? History is history. My ancestors are my ancestors and none of that is going to change. When we talk about data obsolescence, we are referring to a more recent phenomena of changing computer file formats rendering older forma... | web |
HomeDocumentation > Configuring and administering > Administering Security > Configuring HTTP header-based authentication
This chapter introduces the process of achieving Single Sign-on by using CA severs,such as Siteminder, to validate authentication information that is passed by the the HTTP headers.
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Costa Rica: Background
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Costa Rica has become a household name in terms of tourist destinations within Latin America. Gracefully posing as the bridge between Mesoamerican and Andean cultures', as well as the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, this little country beckons the patronage of approximately ... | web |
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Part V: Archaeology - A Supplement to Genealogy
Most kids want to grow up to be a firefighter, ballerina, veterinarian, actor, pro football player or a pop star. Me? I wanted to be an archaeologist. Well, either that or a historian. I'm sure... | web |
Cellphone charger has a USB port forced upon it
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Gaunt family
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Up until the 20th century, every single member of the Gaun... | web |
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How far does reliable counting of the years reach into the past:
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Under the Big Top: the Circus in America
Elephants line up
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Polar Bears, Wheat Futures, and Nuclear Reactors
What could Polar Bears, Wheat Futures, and Nuclear Reactors have in common?
There are millions of things in the world that can be measured (quantified, in science speak). At any given time roughly half of all measured things will be headed low... | web |
In the seminal report, “Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Cases of Iran, Syria, and Libya,” written in 1990, Kenneth Timmerman first exposed Iran’s expansion of conventional forces and unconventional weapons. Although published 20 years ago, Iran continues to remilitarize without question.
Iran has and continues to use... | web |
If you keep going around the universe, will you end up where you started?
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Stop Overthinking Your Life
The folks at Real Simple points out where the real problem with overthinking often lies:
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The agendas on the union side, for example, may include those of the national union (NEA, AFT, etc.), the state union affiliate (MEA, MFT, etc.), the local union representative, the local bargaining unit and the bargaining team. The school district, on the other hand, has to consider the agenda of the school board, t... | web |
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Reference; Foundation for analysis without axiom of choice?
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Women, the power of language, and the language of power
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Differences between the sexes must be defined to be accepted – but should the language defining these differences be changed?
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I have a doubt. Is it possible to get the cumulants of a probability distribution from the autocorrelation function? or the probability distribution?. For example, the variance (the second cumulant) corresponds to the autocorrelation function at $\tau =0$. Thank you so much
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Risen. This Cenomanian sea urchin disappeared from the fossil record for 30 million years.
Mass Extinctions Face Downsizing
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The Seahorse is Creature of the Month
Seahorses are delightful to spot, curling onto sponges, coral or sea grass. They range in size from the tiny Hippocampus denise which is just 16 mm, to the 35 cm (1 foot) Pacific seahorse.
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The opening anecdote relates Francis Galton's surprise that the crowd at a county fair accurately guessed the butchered or the "slaughtered and dressed" weight of an ox when their ind... | web |
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Recall that Sauron has inscribed the One Ring with the following words.
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
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Clay Sculptor Tutorial (Beginner’s)
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What can be done to bridge the Air Gap, except autorun?
Is there any hardware butterflies that can attack physically isolated Unix/Linux machine in common usb drives, like VSC (Vendor Specific Commands)?
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Brigia was a planet in the Tion Hegemony of the Outer Rim, and the Brigian homeworld.
Brigia was a blue planet that was inhabited by tall, purple-skinned humanoids: the Brigians.[4]
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I have a vague understanding of what 'C portability' means (IIRC, it means that the C language spans multiple platforms, but must adhere to certain standards (?)) and would like to know if we can portably write programs that would accept any number of arguments (even none).
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I was wondering how useful foreign keys really are in a database. Essentially, if the developers know what keys the different tables depend on, they can write the queries just as though there was a foreign key, right?
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I'm unsure how to facet by a function of the data in the data element of a ggplot object. In the following toy example, what I want to do is something like this:
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Ultimate destruction of Milky Way shown in animation (VIDEO)
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Night terrors are sleep disturbances in which a child may suddenly sit bolt upright in bed, cry, scream, moan, mumble and thrash about with her eyes wide open, but without being truly awake. Because she's caught in a sort of a twilight z... | web |
Two start-ups want to replace road transport with swarms of tiny autonomous helicopters. Meet the organisations with sky-high ambitions.
If you want to get a sense of one of man’s great overlooked engineering achievements look at the US Central Intelligence Agency’s World Factbook’s entry on roads around the world.
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The discovery that species go extinct was made relatively recently in human history: it dates from the early 19th century when Georges Cuvier reconstructured whole skeletons from bone fragments. The most convincing cases of extinction were for gigantic forms like mastodons: it was hardly plausib... | web |
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The Assiniboine (also known as Nakoda Oyadebi) are Aboriginal people in Canada whose traditional lands are in the Plains. Around the time of sustained European contact, Assiniboine people were active participants in the buffalo hunt and the fur trade, and controlled vast territories in what are now parts of Manitoba an... | web |
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Two of the seven million dollar challenges that have baffled for more than a century may be close to being solved
On the other hand, if somebody has already sorted out the so-called Poincaré conjecture, then scientists will understand something profound about the na... | web |
3 Ways to Tell When Bread is Done
How can you tell if something is done if you can't take a peek inside? When it comes to bread, there are actually a few ways to make sure your lovely loaf is perfectly baked, every time!
1. Visually - The more you bake, the more you'll be able to gauge how a loaf of bread should look... | web |
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The act of converting rounded-off figures in one system of measurement to another to far too many digits.
Astronomer to local reporter: With only eye witness accounts, you can't be very accurate, but I'd say the meteorite was one hundred metric tons and exploded a five thousand meters altitude.
Newspape... | web |
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